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Agrofood
Which are the benefits of extrusion technology?
Extrusion technology allows to improve the nutricional, sensorial and fuctional properties of food. Find out what we are doing in CARTIF with pulses, in the International Year of Pulses, in this videoblog of our colleague Belén Blanco. (Activate the english subtitles)...
Vegetal covers or mulches, right or wrong?
More than once, especially in the villages, we have heard a farmer saying a similar phrase: “Wheat is growing a lot due to rains this year, what a pity! Because many weeds will grow and I will have to spread herbicides”. Before this comment it could open a long...
Energy & Environment
Climate change, a reality we have to face
Climate change is an increasingly visible reality on our planet, affecting millions of people around the world. These changes in climate are clearly recognizable by the increase in temperatures, the decrease in water resources, the sea level rise or the increasingly...
The future electricity grids would be more strong and efficient
The energy sector is undergoing a deep transformation to respond to the need to combat climate change and thus contribute to the sustainability of life onour planet. This is being articulated through the so-called "Energy Transition", which involves two big...
Environment
Fumes! (I)
We are not angry, of course, what really happens is that air quality issue concerns us greatly in CARTIF. A few weeks ago, we attended a workshop entitled "Technical solutions for reducing emissions from mobility", held in MAGRAMA (Spanish Ministry). The panel of...
Once upon a time… the Climate Change
"What is the weather like this weekend?". We ask every week when Friday comes. "Sunny, but we can’t trust on weather" answers our colleague. "You’re right! It’s the climate change fault" both conclude. In our previous posts, you have been able to know how CARTIF is...
Industry
Cyber-physical systems. Are we closer to Terminator’s ‘judgment day’?
“It is April 21, 2011. SKYNET, the Superintelligence artificial system who became self-aware 2 days earlier has launched a nuclear attack on us humans. The April 19, SKYNET system, formed by millions of computer severs all across the world, initiated a geometric...
Data value and knowledge extraction
Last November I attend third Big Data Value Association (BDVA) Summit in Valencia. The BDVA is a fully self-financed non-profit organization under Belgium law that represents the ‘private’ side in Big Data Value Public Private Partnership (Big Data Value PPP), while...
Health & Quality of life
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Construction and Heritage
Automatic visual inspection of linear infrastructure
Have you ever wondered how it is decided when a road or a tunnel should be repaired? The most common is that an operator notes damages down in his notebook while he goes walking, and then, these annotations are used to determine the state of the infrastructure....
The future of construction is printed in 3D
3D printing is here to stay. When a new technology is so widespread that no longer catches the attention it is that its implementation is complete. More and more people have a plastic 3D printer at home and many of us know someone who has bought one or it has been...
Digitalization
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